MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/June 2008

= Proposed Additions =

supermodels.nl
I noticed that the website "supermodels.nl" has many links on various fashion model profiles on Wiki. According to Finjan Secure Browsing, AVG and board threads ([see this screenshot]), this site is infested with malware and badware. Although I'm unable to access the site (keeps loading and loading), I'd like to know how you would handle this case since there are dozens of links to this dispensable site. Thank you so far. Robomod (talk) 21:18, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Hu12 (talk) 21:59, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank You again. Are these links being removed automatically or manually? Robomod (talk) 06:22, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I am generating a COIBot report. If the site is bad, these requests must be done at meta!  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ►Thank you. It would be great if an admin could fasten this process. ► robomod 21:04, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I just removed many of them, a small handful remains; I'll let someone more familiar with enwiki do them. – Mike . lifeguard  &#124; @en.wb 21:26, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you Mike. Your help is much appreciated. ► robomod  18:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Note - given the possibility of malware here I have actually listed this at Meta level - we have done such things in the past (it could be removed here if required). Feel free to update us if/when there is any news that this is resolved - cheers -- Herby talk thyme 07:09, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

youtube.com
I propose that youtube links should be addable by autoconfirmed users only, to reduce the amount of copyvio links added. Stifle (talk) 18:48, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Concerns of possible Linking to copyrighted works is a persuasive reason. These videos are re-posted anonomously typicaly from other sources (the creator's) and are carrying the work in violation of the creator's copyright. Permissioned alternatives are most always available from the "actual" source(the creator's). Wikipedia need not be a part in contributory infringement. Lets allow for more input, simply because of the amount of these links currently on the project.  --Hu12 (talk) 19:08, 17 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Note that bug 1505 was recently fixed. Existing links are no longer affected by the spam blacklist. MER-C 12:35, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't think that blacklisting youtube is a good idea. YouTube has been used for copyright infringement, maybe. But that's not Wikipedia's care. Many companies, artists and organizations use YouTube to upload their videos to share with the world and those videos are legit to link from Wikipedia. If there is infringement, YouTube will and does deal with it anyway. There will always be incorrect links to not allowed videos according to YouTube's Terms of Use but those links can be removed. Blocking, even for only a certain group of editors, will not help at all but instead be harmful to the project. --SoWhy Talk 14:22, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Blacklisting youtube is not a good idea. Zealous editors would simply use the fact that it's in the blacklist to gallop around removing thousands of links for no other reason.  It's a scenario for another ArbCom and we shouldn't be creating this sort of disruption to the project.  Any editor who sees a copyvio can revert and we should leave it at that in this case. Wjhonson (talk) 15:57, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree that blacklisting youtube would be disruptive. Furthermore, Youtube is owned by one of the wealthiest companies in the world, Google, and as a potential magnet for copyright lawsuits, they are diligent in taking down copyright infringements when made aware of them.


 * Also, youtube links were being added in early 2007 at the daily rate of 100 to 150 based on Veinor's link reports; I'm guessing we probably have 50,000 to 100,000 by now. Any decision to blacklist these links should involve a wider community discussion than we're having here.


 * I suspect many of our youtube links are not of encyclopedic quality; if so, it may worth considering setting up XLinkBot to monitor and revert link additions by unregistered users. -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 16:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Concur with that. There are zillions of articles where youtube links are not only appropriate, but also crucial, cf. Umbrella (song). And since we are currently unable to restrict a link to autoconfirmed users only, I consider this request ❌. Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:58, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * youtube.com is already on XLinkBot's revert list, it has been there since the bot first started running. -- Versa geek  17:49, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

readwriteweb.com


For compariative issues with core content issues:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam
 * Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive133
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Sep
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Jul
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2006 Archive Dec
 * meta:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2006/12

Also


 * Have no editorial oversight (see WP:RS) and articles are self-published
 * weblog and is a Link normally to be avoided
 * Fails Wikipedia's core content policies:
 * ”Verifiability”
 * ” Questionable_sources”
 * "Verifiable Reliable Sources"
 * ”Self-published sources (online and paper)”
 * ”Reliable sources”
 * ”Self-published sources”

Articles are not professionally written, don't have sources, and are not suitable as reliable sources. I'm not convinced how these these low-quality links could ever be used as as a citation or source, (in any appropriate context). This type of material is unencyclopedic and not acceptable in Wikipedia articles.--Hu12 (talk) 06:37, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅--Hu12 (talk) 17:25, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

footyclips.com spam on Wikipedia
Google Adsense: 6591999512883712
 * Spam domains:

-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:51, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Spam accounts:


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Wagyu
Repeatedly adding spam link to this article, was warned 11 May 08, still happening.--Dmol (talk) 14:36, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi. I definitely see a lot of spam. Normally, we don't blacklist after just one spam warning. I've relisted at WikiProject Spam for monitoring. I've also given this IP a second warning.


 * Thanks for your work on this problem. Every time he/she spams with this or another account, give them another warning and let me know the problem is continuing. Thanks


 * for now. -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 15:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. This was my first spam listing, not sure how much was needed to action. --Dmol (talk) 21:36, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Celebrity blog spam
This is from WT:WPSPAM#Celebrity blog spam - spamming continuing from anon IPs. All sites registered to the same individual (Robert Stoubos). robertstoubos.co.uk

Requested by Kelly  hi! 03:42, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅. Thanks Kelly, for tracking those down!--Hu12 (talk) 22:26, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

A pestilence of Pollux Group spam articles on Wikipedia

 * Domain:


 * Related domain:


 * Accounts:

-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:52, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Deleted as blatant advertising:
 * Image:Bestseoguru.png
 * Image:Seo new.png
 * Definitions of Success in Software Development
 * deleted twice
 * SEO Services
 * deleted twice
 * Search-Engine-Optimization
 * Seo Services
 * User:Patelmiteshb
 * User:Search-Engines-Optimization
 * Web Promotion of Offshore Center


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:14, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

amazingsalespitch.com spam

 * Spam domains:


 * Related domains:

-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 21:58, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Account:


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:15, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

kriyayogain.com, kriyayoga.org.in

 * Spam domains:


 * Account:
 * and many, many more
 * and many, many more
 * and many, many more
 * and many, many more
 * and many, many more
 * and many, many more
 * and many, many more
 * and many, many more
 * and many, many more
 * and many, many more

User is immune to warnings, advice, and reverts by several editors, and has gone as far as adding his link and offer of his guru services at Help:Contents, for people needing....help, I guess. Has also put out his shingle at talk pages: Talk:Shakti, Talk:Spiritual among others. A great deal of productive editor time would be saved by simply blacklisting. Thanks, ~ priyanath talk 01:54, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Great report, ✅--Hu12 (talk) 02:02, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Spam domains:


 * Account:


 * Thanks - this user has already tried to get around this by inserting a link to his blog, which was reverted by a bot. Below is the info anyway, in case it helps. Since he seems to be persistent, is this the best way to add new domains? thanks, ~ priyanath talk 14:29, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅ added the new one. the bot clued in on the "blogspot.com", if more need blacklisting just add them here. --Hu12 (talk) 01:21, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Live2Support Inc. spam on Wikipedia
Google Adsense ID: 9029159188744814
 * Spam domains:


 * Related domains:


 * Accounts:

Live2Support Inc
 * Domain owner:
 * 202, Manjusha Chamber, 12, LSC,
 * Saini Enclave, Vikas Marg,
 * Delhi, 110092
 * India

Live2Support Inc
 * A1/223, Paschim Vihar,
 * Delhi, 110063
 * India

-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:18, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Reference:
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2008 Archive Apr 2


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:16, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

thecubanchef.com askcuban.com


Ongoing Cuban cooking spam, sustained long term abuse. . MER-C 11:39, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Yep, agree & ✅ -- Herby talk thyme 11:46, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Abuse What abuse? People come and ask food related questions daily. What is the abuse? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.0.84.224 (talk) 00:40, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Greene County spam war


Long term spam war. . MER-C 13:56, 30 May 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:18, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

switchfoot.ru
Edits have been comming from across 195.238.190.* making it difficult to block. However there is no reason that this domain would ever need to be linked to anyhow. Blacklisting should be simpler then blocking that whole region --T-rex 19:59, 1 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Accounts:


 * Spam domains:
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:16, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:16, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:16, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

linkbucks.com/link/
Link forwarder with heavy advertising. No reason this is ever appropriate in an article - kill it with fire. Zetawoof(&zeta;) 02:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Seconded. No reason that this domain should ever need to be linked. --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 02:14, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Domain:
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:37, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:37, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

sourpatch.org
Shock site that has been added as a link from Sour Patch Kids and related pages (see for example) for the past few months alternately replacing the Official site, and being added as Unofficial site/fansite. No real reason this will ever need to be linked. Dreaded Walrus t c 15:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅. thanks for catching this!--Hu12 (talk) 15:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

qualityindustrialcoatings.com

 * Spam domain:

-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 23:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Spam account:


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

tallshoes4men.com

 * Domains:

-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 23:42, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Accounts:


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Flea77.com spam

 * Spam domain:


 * Spam accounts:

-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 23:58, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Spam article:
 * Flea77 -- deleted 5 times as blatant advertising


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:22, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

maskmelin.livejournal.com
Spam URL

Spam accounts

User:Misterscriblerius spammed this LiveJournal URL across a load of articles last month; having been warned against it, he abandoned his username and is just adding it through throwaway anon accounts. --McGeddon (talk) 08:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Cross-wiki spam:
 * pt:Especial:Contribuições/189.49.3.142
 * pt:Especial:Contribuições/Misterscriblerius
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 05:12, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

apsira.com

 * Spam URL:


 * Spam accounts:


 * Repeated spamming:

        

The Users claim this is an NGO educational site, but it appears full of Google adsense, and very spammy. - Amog  |T a l k 06:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Agreed & ✅ thanks -- Herby talk thyme 11:29, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

animalethics.org.uk wolftrust.org.uk


Spamming after block in April. Unresponsive to warnings. . MER-C 10:04, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅--Hu12 (talk) 14:13, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

IPrayToday.com
Website that has been added as a link from Prayer by various IPs. Sometimes, the spam link even replaced legitimate links. --Blanchardb- Me • MyEars • MyMouth -timed 16:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Adsense pub-3658705219559863
 * Accounts
 * ✅--Hu12 (talk) 17:08, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

giacomo.lorenzoni.name
Spam from 79.19.209.27; This domain has been cross wiki spammed previously (87.19.217.191), and aded by 87.19.220.101 list; Several items on my watchlist were modified in quick succession by this user. I have reverted their contributions, and would like to know if this is sufficient for blacklisting, due to cross wiki spamming (see Alternate IP block.

Talk:Combinatorics has some discussion re linkspam from this domain - way back in 2005 though.



User A1 (talk) 10:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I personally support the request (if it complies with the wiki rules). Let me add that similar spamming has been done also in the it:wiki. --Fioravante Patrone en (talk) 06:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Talk:Probability
 * additional accounts
 * ✅--Hu12 (talk) 07:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅--Hu12 (talk) 07:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Cross Wiki spamming
 * es:Especial:Contributions/79.19.209.27
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/79.19.209.27
 * fr:Special:Contributions/79.19.209.27
 * it:Special:Contributions/212.171.42.74
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/212.171.42.222
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/79.18.225.94
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/79.25.115.224
 * pt:Especial:Contribui%C3%A7%C3%B5es/87.19.220.101
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/87.19.220.101
 * fr:Special:Contributions/87.19.220.101
 * es:Especial:Contributions/87.19.220.101
 * en:Special:Contributions/87.19.220.101
 * el:%CE%95%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C:Contributions/87.19.217.191
 * el:%CE%95%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C:Contributions/87.19.220.101
 * de:Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/87.19.220.101
 * en:Special:Contributions/79.3.217.31
 * en:Special:Contributions/87.19.217.191
 * pt:Especial:Contribui%C3%A7%C3%B5es/87.19.217.191
 * nl:Speciaal:Bijdragen/87.19.217.191
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/87.19.217.191
 * fr:Special:Contributions/87.19.217.191
 * es:Especial:Contributions/87.19.217.191
 * de:Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/87.19.217.191
 * ca:Especial:Contribucions/87.19.217.191
 * es:Especial:Contributions/87.19.217.236
 * es:Especial:Contributions/79.17.74.93
 * es:Especial:Contributions/87.6.236.164
 * sk:%C5%A0peci%C3%A1lne:Contributions/87.6.236.164
 * da:Speciel:Bidrag/87.6.236.164
 * nl:Speciaal:Bijdragen/87.19.217.236
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/87.19.217.236
 * fr:Special:Contributions/87.19.217.236
 * en:Special:Contributions/87.19.217.236
 * de:Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/87.19.217.236
 * af:Spesiaal:Contributions/87.19.217.236
 * fr:Special:Contributions/87.6.236.164
 * de:Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/87.6.236.164
 * da:Speciel:Bidrag/87.6.236.164
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/79.17.74.93
 * fr:Special:Contributions/79.17.74.93
 * en:Special:Contributions/79.17.74.93
 * de:Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/79.17.74.93
 * --Hu12 (talk) 10:13, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

79.18.2.183 (talk) 11:15, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

dalianxpat.com, discoverdalian.com




90% of this user's edit history shows that he is clearly intent on promoting only these two websites beginning with his very first edit. The user evens tries to create some dubious content just so he can ref link to those sites in order to make them look as if they are essential to the article. The user's reasoning is that they've been there for a couple of years so they have to stay there. Thanks. Hermant patel (talk) 10:29, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


 * This is in two parts. These two links don't seem related, while i believe Kazkura's intrest is in discoverdalian.com (Adsense pub-3736550010943409). The reversions which included dalianxpat.com, perhaps were intended to hide/disguise that fact.


 * First, http://spam.dalianxpat.com
 * Articles_for_creation/2007-05-26
 * Accounts
 * Unrelated, removed links
 * Unrelated, removed links


 * Second; "Adsense pub-3736550010943409 related"
 * Accounts
 * Accounts
 * Accounts


 * Cetainly there is link warring on Dalian, not recent enough for a block. However, "Jumping links", is not a sign of good faith, and clear evidence of spamming. discoverdalian.com and manchurianlegacy.com, ✅--Hu12 (talk) 11:02, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your analysis and help. I just realized that a 99% most likely sockpuppet of his:

had tampered with my userpage on the 9th of May - the same day I removed the spam on the Dalian page - probably to intimidate me, but hey I dont mind. I just don't like when people try to hijack wikipedia, especially turning location articles into travel-type brochures. --Hermant patel (talk) 21:44, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Blocked the account. Unfortunatly retaliatory vandalism socks and IP's is common for these type of bad faith contributors. Thanks for the reports.--Hu12 (talk) 01:12, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

allaahuakbar.net
Per m:talk:Spam blacklist, allaahuakbar.net needs to be blacklisted on meta but there are a number of links on several projects. I have just cleaned up enWP so am blacklisting here temporarily to stop them creeping back in, I will remove it when the meta blacklist entry goes in. Guy (Help!) 20:55, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Some allaahuakbar.net links are valid and have been placed on pages by non-spammers for good reason. Please don't blanket-delete these, but delete on a case-by-case basis.-Moorlock (talk) 21:57, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * In what way valid? I don't see any evidence that this is a reliable source. Guy (Help!) 18:12, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

--Hu12 (talk) 01:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

fkrosters.com

 * This is the second time I've had to blacklist one of this guy's websites. I already had gamerosters.com blacklisted a year ago, so if you can look at logs/archives somehow please check that out. But anyway, here's the deal:


 * Brian Kaldenberg runs a website called GameRosters.com which sells custom rosters for video games like those in the NCAA Football series. He continuously spammed NCAA Football 08 with his gamerosters.com link, as you'll see if you can check the archives somehow. It might have been at a the meta spam list, though I don't really understand all this.


 * Anyway, Mr. Kaldenberg has shown a complete disregard for Wikipedia rules on spamming, and has even sent my threatening messages via email, AIM and facebook.


 * Now, a guy named Fairdale Kings used to run a website called fkrosters.com which provided rosters free of charge. It seems that Mr. Kaldenberg has bought out FK, as the fkrosters.com website is no nearly identical to www.gamerosters.com and has been re-designed by Mr. Kaldenberg's company, NimbleAd.com.


 * However, it seems Mr. Kaldenberg has been careful to not put his name on the FK website, so as not to let FK's users know up front that FK is no longer running the website. Of course, the big difference is that he is no charging from that website.


 * Anyway, on to the point. You can see that Mr. Kaldenberg has begun spamming the NCAA Football 09 article with his new fkrosters.com link. Here are some diffs:


 * 
 * 


 * I think it's quite clearly a violation of WP:SPAM in a ton of different ways, from being a conflict of interest, to being a personal website, to trying to advertise and profit from having a link on Wikipedia. Mr. Kaldenberg has shown a complete disregard for Wikipedia policy in recent years, and though I doubt this will be the end of his problems here, this definitely needs to be done and will at least throw a wrench into his violations.► Chris Nelson Holla! 21:50, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Also, from the Google search link above, I've found this which proves his acquisition of the fkrosters.com name.► Chris Nelson Holla! 21:56, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * A new diff:


 * ► Chris Nelson Holla! 17:44, 22 May 2008 (UTC)


 * And another:



Can we get this done?► Chris Nelson Holla! 21:39, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Has there been any more additions?--Hu12 (talk) 02:03, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


 * No, just these four thus far. But I guarantee you there will be more, and considering I've already proven he is trying to promote his website for profit, I think there's no question it should be blacklisted. Plus, his gamerosters.com site has already been blacklisted on Wikipedia and this just another version.► Chris Nelson Holla! 02:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


 * And it happens again today:

 ► Chris Nelson Holla! 20:40, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thus far, edits from a single IP appear to account for all insertions of the link, so I've added some UW tags to the user's talk page. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 21:11, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I explained to him in detail about the policy last year, he knows it all. He does not care because he says he's running a business. The fact that his one link has already been blacklisted should be enough by itself to get this one banned also.► Chris Nelson Holla! 01:17, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * And it happens again:



Seriously, I cannot understand what's taking so long with this. The mere fact that his gamerosters.com link was blacklisted and this new link serves only to circumvent that should make this automatic. Warnings won't help, you can look at the talk pages of the IP's that did it last year to see he was warned.► Chris Nelson Holla! 01:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * See, here's an IP he did this with last year on NCAA Football 08. Here are the contributions of that IP. And here are the contributions of this new IP.► Chris Nelson Holla! 01:31, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * ✅ --Hu12 (talk) 02:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * ✅ --Hu12 (talk) 02:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * ✅ --Hu12 (talk) 02:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you.► Chris Nelson Holla! 01:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

It looks like they found a way around the blacklist: See |diff.
 * (same link, but done with the ".com")
 * (same link, but done with the ".com")



Looks like the blacklist needs to be modified to capture this with or without the .com portion of the address. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 23:59, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Added:
 * fkrosters
 * ncaa09rosters
 * ncaa2009rosters
 * gamerosters
 * sportrosters
 * To catch variants. --Hu12 (talk) 00:35, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

ukmix.org/forums
I'd like to add this forum to the blacklist for the same reason that worldwidealbums.tk and clickitaliansoftware.net was. There's no excuse for this to be used as a source for album sales and unfortunately many discographies seem to use it. If blacklisting is too much, perhaps this can be added to XLinkBot. Spellcast (talk) 18:50, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - for the love of god please blacklist this forum. It's used in so many album and discography articles at this point, its overwhelming trying to stay on top of it. - eo (talk) 19:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅ - excessive linkage for a "forum" site I think -- Herby talk thyme 11:16, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

www.cbsemath.com


Spam accounts

Very persistent spammer on Central Board of Secondary Education. Totally unresponsive to warnings, changes IPs frequently. Generally combines spam addition with removal of the entity's official web page. MrOllie (talk) 17:10, 9 June 2008 (UTC)


 * That page has been hit several hundred times by many different spammers, not just this one. Also this guy has spammed other domains. Give me some time and I'll sort it out. I suspect some other spammers will get their domains listed, too.


 * Thanks for your work on trying to keep that page clean.-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:44, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Here goes:
 * Spam domains:

Google ID: 5258427130131891
 * Related domains:

Adbrite ID: 85883


 * Spam accounts:
 * delete
 * move up
 * move down
 * move up
 * vandalism
 * replace
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 * move down
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 * vandalism
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-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Spam articles:
 * Cbse websites
 * CBSE India Mathematics


 * I've started a subpage to catalog all the different competing domains and rival spam accounts at:
 * Talk:Central Board of Secondary Education/Spam
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:35, 9 June 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Good job! Masterpiece2000   ( talk ) 03:19, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

crackcbse.in spam
Google Adsense ID: 0225100827272317
 * Spam domains:

-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Spam accounts:
 * threatened to ban others from Wikipedia if they messed with his links
 * moved link up
 * moved link up
 * moved link up
 * moved link up
 * moved link up
 * moved link up
 * moved link up
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 * moved link up
 * moved link up


 * ✅ -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

kippreport.com
Citation spamming over six months, two spam only accounts blocked. MER-C 11:30, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Bump. MER-C 02:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

✅, cheers -- Herby talk thyme 08:46, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

tasselnfringe.com
Months-long pattern of one-time-use IPs in the 59.180.xxx.xxx netblock adding links for this commercial site to many articles related to graduation, academic regalia, honor societies, fraternaties/sororities, etc. DMacks (talk) 16:43, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Examples: To Honor cords (the product they sell):        ;  recent on various honor-society pages:    .  Reverted by many other editors; hard to track and revert manually because there are so many possible pages. DMacks (talk) 16:51, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Tracking contributions of User:Trimindia, noticed that trimindia.com is the same company, however a Linksearch for them doesn't find any links on en.wp at this time. DMacks (talk) 16:59, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Spam Article Place to buy Honor Cords
 * Accounts
 * All Three, ✅. Thanks DMacks--Hu12 (talk) 17:03, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * All Three, ✅. Thanks DMacks--Hu12 (talk) 17:03, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Vietnam Travel Promotion Group


Massive dynamic IP spamming. . MER-C 11:55, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, combination of a number of pages & IPs makes this suitable for listing in my mind - ✅ -- Herby talk thyme 11:18, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

= Proposed Removals =

Request unlisting of www.csrcenter.net
CSRcenter.net is a global, non-profit research community / database for and by students and researchers of Corporate Social Responsibility. This means that the materials on the website are useful for people that want to know more about Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and related terms. For research purposes, one can imagine that referring to a library of relevant, freely accessible content is a useful external link.

Looking at the Corporate Social Responsibility article, for example, the external links contain a link to GlobalReporting, a website simply listing companies with social reports. This link is allowed, yet adds little to the reader's understanding of corporate social responsibility. Any user looking for more (research) materials concerning Corporate Social Responsibility is left empthy-handed.

Unlisting CSR Center would therefore be useful, as I am confident that an external link to the website on CSR-related articles provides readers an opportunity to further their inquiries into CSR. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.174.233.72 (talk) 08:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * See:
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Oct
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2008 Archive Apr 2
 * nl:Jan Jonker
 * promotional article about the domain owner written by nl:Gebruiker:Daffy01; User:Daffy01 was one of the spam accounts use on en.wikipedia.
 * nl:Jan Jonker
 * promotional article about the domain owner written by nl:Gebruiker:Daffy01; User:Daffy01 was one of the spam accounts use on en.wikipedia.


 * It looks like this domain was also added by the same accounts to the nl.wikipedia; this raises the question as to whether it should instead be blacklisted on the much more sweeping global blacklist which is where we list cross-wiki spam domains. The global blacklist is used by more than just our 700+ Wikimedia Foundation wikis (Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, etc.). All 3000+ Wikia wikis plus a substantial percentage of the 25,000+ unrelated wikis that run on our MediaWiki software have chosen to incorporate this blacklist in their own spam filtering.
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 16:39, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


 * It looks like we missed some domains when blacklisting the others:
 * The site-owner appears to own 20+ other domains which should also be considered at for potential blacklisting if someone has time to investigate.
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 16:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The site-owner appears to own 20+ other domains which should also be considered at for potential blacklisting if someone has time to investigate.
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 16:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Request for delisting z3.invisionfree.com
z3.invisionfree.com is one of the servers which make up the invisionfree network. I am attempting to represent a fictional use of data from the Thirty Years War, as the simulation is run off of the invisionfree servers. I believe that in all fairness, simulations such as these should be mentioned, as it is practical research into the varying politics of the times and has had participants from accross America and from other countries through out the world, such as Japan, Finland, and Germany. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.31.112.188 (talk) 17:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I am afraid you will have to provide full urls to the documents. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:23, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Honestly, I don't think it matters. The fact that the Thirty Years' War was notable doesn't mean that an online simulation based on it is also notable, or is an appropriate external link in its article. (The link in question appears to be z3.invisionfree.com/ygw, as referenced in .) Zetawoof(&zeta;) 05:50, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Closed as ❌ per Zetawoof -- Herby talk thyme 08:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Request for delisting creativeinvest.com
creativeinvest.com is a website providing information on socially responsible investing. We have been on the web since 11/19/1995, predating Wiki by several years. At one point, we were the only SRI website on the web. Why it is blacklisted is unclear. Please remove.

Done —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.93.216.241 (talk) 20:23, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


 * To answer your question, you can follow these links to find that this domain was extensively spammed:
 * meta:Talk:Spam blacklist/2007-01
 * Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive30


 * Related domains:
 * http://www.minoritybank.com
 * http://www.minorityfinance.com
 * http://www.minorityfinance.com


 * This is the talk page for a blacklist that filters spam for the English language Wikipedia only. creativeinvest.com is listed on Wikimedia's global blacklist; its talk page is at meta:Talk:Spam blacklist. Before you waste much time making a similar request there, I must tell you that domains are seldom removed from either blacklist in response to domain owners' requests but rather when trusted, experienced editors request use of it in building our encyclopaedia.


 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Request for delisting giacomo.lorenzoni.name
Perhaps giacomo.lorenzoni.name it is “Spam” also in

http://www.cfd-online.com/Wiki/Codes (http://www.cfd-online.com/Wiki/Codes#Solvers "PEEI: a computer program for the numerical solution of differential analytical models (i.e. systems of partial differential equations)."

http://www.mathcs.carleton.edu/probweb/probweb.html (Teaching Resources) "Analytical Argumentations of Probability and Statistics by Giacomo Lorenzoni."

http://www.matematicamente.it/siti_di_matematica/siti_di_matematica/probabilita_e_statistica_20070626179/ "Argomentazioni analitiche di probabilità e statistica (Giacomo Lorenzoni)"

http://www.dmoz.org/World/Italiano/Scienza/Matematica/ "Argomentazioni analitiche di probabilità e statistica"

?

79.25.115.224 (talk) 08:09, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I have no idea what those links are supposed to represent, however, MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist shows quite a bit of recent and long term abuse, some as far back as 2005. Requestors IP range appears to be within the same range.
 * --Hu12 (talk) 08:19, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

79.18.225.94 (talk) 09:13, 31 May 2008 (UTC) if you do not have ideas it would be better that you go to sleep, thus you can dream other recent and far abuses. 79.18.225.94 (talk) 09:13, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Special:Contributions/79.19.209.27
 * 10:07, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) Diffusion equation‎ (Added the external link to the free program PEEI, which calculates a discrete, numerical and approximate solution of a generic system of partial differential equations.)
 * 09:56, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) Partial differential equation‎ (Added the external link to the free program PEEI, which calculates a discrete, numerical and approximate solution of a generic system of partial differential equations.)
 * 09:40, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) Heat transfer‎ (Added the external link to the free program PEEI, which calculates a discrete, numerical and approximate solution of a generic system of partial differential equations.)
 * 09:34, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) Heat conduction‎ (Added the external link to the free program PEEI, which calculates a discrete, numerical and approximate solution of a generic system of partial differential equations.)
 * 09:16, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) Computational fluid dynamics‎ (Added the external link to the free program PEEI, which calculates a discrete, numerical and approximate solution of a generic system of partial differential equations.)
 * 09:08, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) Navier–Stokes equations‎ (Added the external link to the free program PEEI, which calculates a discrete, numerical and approximate solution of a generic system of partial differential equations.)
 * 08:37, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) Heat equation‎ (Added new link.)
 * 08:33, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) Spline (mathematics)‎ (Added new link)
 * 08:30, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) Differential equation‎ (Added the external link to the free program PEEI, which calculates a discrete, numerical and approximate solution of a generic system of partial differential equations.)
 * Additional IP's
 * Special:Contributions/87.19.217.191
 * Special:Contributions/79.6.57.146
 * Special:Contributions/87.19.220.101
 * Special:Contributions/79.3.217.31
 * Special:Contributions/212.171.43.17
 * Special:Contributions/212.171.42.222
 * Special:Contributions/212.171.42.74
 * Special:Contributions/212.171.43.11
 * Special:Contributions/212.171.42.114
 * Special:Contributions/212.171.42.92
 * Special:Contributions/80.181.108.80
 * Special:Contributions/87.19.220.101
 * Special:Contributions/87.19.217.191
 * --Hu12 (talk) 09:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

79.18.225.94 (talk) 09:57, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * many additions = many abuses ?

79.18.225.94 (talk) 09:57, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Cross Wiki spamming
 * es:Especial:Contributions/79.19.209.27
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/79.19.209.27
 * fr:Special:Contributions/79.19.209.27
 * it:Special:Contributions/212.171.42.74
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/212.171.42.222
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/79.18.225.94
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/79.25.115.224
 * pt:Especial:Contribui%C3%A7%C3%B5es/87.19.220.101
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/87.19.220.101
 * fr:Special:Contributions/87.19.220.101
 * es:Especial:Contributions/87.19.220.101
 * en:Special:Contributions/87.19.220.101
 * el:%CE%95%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C:Contributions/87.19.217.191
 * el:%CE%95%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C:Contributions/87.19.220.101
 * de:Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/87.19.220.101
 * en:Special:Contributions/79.3.217.31
 * en:Special:Contributions/87.19.217.191
 * pt:Especial:Contribui%C3%A7%C3%B5es/87.19.217.191
 * nl:Speciaal:Bijdragen/87.19.217.191
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/87.19.217.191
 * fr:Special:Contributions/87.19.217.191
 * es:Especial:Contributions/87.19.217.191
 * de:Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/87.19.217.191
 * ca:Especial:Contribucions/87.19.217.191
 * es:Especial:Contributions/87.19.217.236
 * es:Especial:Contributions/79.17.74.93
 * es:Especial:Contributions/87.6.236.164
 * sk:%C5%A0peci%C3%A1lne:Contributions/87.6.236.164
 * da:Speciel:Bidrag/87.6.236.164
 * nl:Speciaal:Bijdragen/87.19.217.236
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/87.19.217.236
 * fr:Special:Contributions/87.19.217.236
 * en:Special:Contributions/87.19.217.236
 * de:Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/87.19.217.236
 * af:Spesiaal:Contributions/87.19.217.236
 * fr:Special:Contributions/87.6.236.164
 * de:Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/87.6.236.164
 * da:Speciel:Bidrag/87.6.236.164
 * it:Speciale:Contributi/79.17.74.93
 * fr:Special:Contributions/79.17.74.93
 * en:Special:Contributions/79.17.74.93
 * de:Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/79.17.74.93
 * and --Hu12 (talk) 10:15, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

79.18.225.94 (talk) 11:04, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussioni_progetto:Matematica#Segnalazione_spam
 * http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussione:Equazione_differenziale_alle_derivate_parziali —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.18.225.94 (talk) 11:06, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

79.18.225.94 (talk) 11:04, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Now closed as as stated above & listed at Meta -- Herby  talk thyme 11:17, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Request for delisting of DrupalModules.com
DrupalModules.com is the main resource for Drupal module ratings and statistics (modules are the building blocks of the Drupal CMS). The site has hundreds of volunteer reviewers from the Drupal community, including members of the Drupal core development team. This site provides Drupal resources not available anywhere else, and has been linked on the front pages of virtually every national Drupal site. Here are just a few examples (many of these are foreign language sites):

Drupal.org

Drupal Berlin

Drupal Germany

Drupal Norway

Drupal Thailand

Drupal Poland

Drupal Bulgaria

Drupal Russia

Drupal Israel

Drupal Italy

DrupalHelp.org

And thousands more.

The site is also mentioned in print (from Learning Drupal 6 Module Development, May 2008, Packt Publishing, ISBN 1847194443)

I believe the site was automatically picked up as "spam" when I attempted to add it to some of the non-english Drupal articles. As I hope I've shown, the site is a relevant, legitimate, and internationally recognized Drupal reference.

72.138.37.233 (talk) 12:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Discussed at m:User:COIBot/XWiki/drupalmodules.com. Issue hopefully resolved there.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 14:41, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

/* Request for delisting www.carnivalservice.com */
CarnivalService.com is a travel agency specialized in Rio carnival. In this site there are many important information for the tourists, it is a travel agency partner of a samba school (GRES Portela) and it is a serious company and with much reputation (there is until a black market salesman that uses a domain created only to confuse the tourists, rio - carnival . net). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.60.117.32 (talk • contribs) 08:34, 1 June 2008
 * Travel agencies would fail under Wikipedias External links policy, Links normally to be avoided. --Hu12 (talk) 14:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * See meta:Talk:Spam blacklist/2007-09


 * Spam domain:


 * Registration data:
 * Carnival Service
 * Rua Doutor Luiz Januario, 262/202, Centro
 * CE-175.NS1.ILTDA.COM.BR
 * Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro 28990-000
 * Brazil


 * Additional spam accounts not noted in the original blacklisting request:


 * Deleted articles:
 * Samba, Summer and Carnival
 * deleted three times
 * Rio de Janeiro: The Capital of Samba
 * deleted 3 times
 * User:Carnivalservice
 * deleting admin's comment: "advertising masquerading as a talk page"
 * The Gay Carnival Route in Rio
 * deleted twice
 * The Rio Carnival 2007 - Hold your heart on!
 * deleted twice


 * Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their encyclopaedic value in support of our encyclopaedia pages. If such an editor asks to use your links, I'm sure the request will be carefully considered and your links may well be removed.


 * The global blacklist is used by more than just our 700+ Wikimedia Foundation wikis (Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, etc.). All 3000+ Wikia wikis plus a substantial percentage of the 25,000+ unrelated wikis that run on our MediaWiki software have chosen to incorporate this blacklist in their own spam filtering. Each wiki has a local "whitelist" which overrides the global blacklist for that project only. Some of the non-Wikimedia sites may be interested in your links; by all means feel free to request local whitelisting on those.


 * Unlike Wikipedia, DMOZ is a web directory specifically designed to categorize and list all Internet sites; if you've not already gotten your sites listed there, I encourage you to do so -- it's a more appropriate venue for your links than our wikis. Their web address: http://www.dmoz.org.
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

aboutmyarea.co.uk/kt20
Please could you consider delisting aboutmyarea.co.uk/kt20 as it actually is a useful community resource which operates to provide an online medium for the local community. It support non-profit groups and organisations for free, and although it is funded by advertising, it could not exist without this as it requires man-hours to update it, and it does not make a profit. It supports initiatives from both Reigate and Banstead Council and Surrey County Council, and is a strong supporter of charities in the area, particularly The Children's Trust, from whom I can provide a testimonial if required. Thank you in anticipation. Jacob74 (talk) 11:01, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is not a directory for external links and is not here to act as a "useful community resource" but for general worldwide readership. If take past spamming actions of say and as example this edit, I see no useful information then provided by link. That the groups using it are well intentioned is not the issue, whether the site provides useful additional information beyond that appropriate within our articles is - and on quick search of a few pages I do not see it as a useful site to link to. Having placed this request under teh right section (removals vs additions) please note that "You should show where the link can be useful and give arguments as to why it should be unlisted", so please give a specific example of where the link might be useful. David Ruben Talk 11:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Additional Accounts WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/aboutmyarea.co.uk               --Hu12 (talk) 12:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It has become apparent that your account and IP's are only being used for spamming inappropriate external links, advertising and for self-promotion. Wikipedia is NOT a "vehicle for advertising" user blocked and request --Hu12 (talk) 12:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Request to delist Debatepedia
debatepedia.org is a redirect to wiki.idebate.org. I came across this block while trying to add a link to Debatepedia on Pro and con lists, but it might be useful to link to from article pages, as well. On controversial topics like gun control or abortion, there's some difficulty in preventing people from using the article or talk page as a discussion forum. Though Wikipedia is not the place to have arguments, it seems it would be useful to give people an alternative forum that is that place. Looking at the original complaint, it appears that the founders added a lot of links to empty debate pages. That's not useful, and it's against the external linking policy.

However, the site has started to fill out, and some debate pages on prominent issues have good content now. The ones linked from their "Past Daily Debate Digest topics daily digest" page (direct link forbidden by spam blacklist) seem to be generally suitable for linking. I think linking to these pages would be useful for readers who want to dig deeper into an issue, or who are passionate about it and need somewhere to argue about it.

So, I recommend removing these two domains from the blacklist. I hope the owners of Debatepedia have gotten the message that links to contentless pages are not OK so there won't be another flood of such lists. (Though user blocks are an alternative to deal with that.) I think it's more likely we can have a controlled increase in cross-linking, limited to "good" links, though the usual day-to-day editing process. Perhaps a special note on the external linking policy about this type of site would help that. -- Beland (talk) 02:15, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia e-mail abuse, canvassing, mass spamming and sock puppetry. Far to much abuse (Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Nov_1). Additionaly wiki.idebate.org links:
 * Have no editorial oversight (see WP:RS) and articles are self-published
 * Fails External links policy
 * Fails Wikipedia's core content policies:
 * ”Verifiability”
 * ” Questionable_sources”
 * "Verifiable Reliable Sources"
 * ”Self-published sources (online and paper)”
 * ”Reliable sources”
 * ”Self-published sources”


 * I don't see any compeling reason for removal at this point, nor am I convinced how this could be used as as a citation or source. However, if a specific link is needed as a potential citation, any etablished editor can request it on the whitelist on a case-by-case basis, where the url can be demonstrated as an appropriate Reliable and Verifiable source (in an appropriate context) when there are no other reasonable alternatives available.--Hu12 (talk) 03:52, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * For the interests of your work on Pro and con lists I have Whitelisted the root domain  http://wiki.idebate.org/index.php/Welcome_to_Debatepedia%21  for use there. Note that variations other than the format above, will not work or be linkable.--Hu12 (talk) 04:11, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not suggesting that Debatepedia is useful as a citation or source to verify factual information; that is not its purpose. Its purpose is to showcase well-reasoned opinions.  I don't see why the Wikipedia policies on verifiability and sourcing apply.  Self-published opinions are not appropriate for Wikipedia, but they are of interest to readers of articles on these topics.  For the articles I mentioned, there does seem to be a wide variety of opinions represented, not just one person, and those opinions are well researched and grounded in factual evidence, as per Debatepedia policy.
 * I'm curious on which criteria you feel these links would fail External links. -- Beland (talk) 21:02, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * External_links, due to Wikipedia e-mail abuse, canvassing, mass spamming and sock puppetry. Whitelisting on a case-by-case basis is in the best interest of the project for now. --Hu12 (talk) 18:56, 10 June 2008 (UTC)